📦 The Order : Weekly Roundup - Flipkart & Peel

Issue #164

Happy Sunday,

Here’s a quick roundup of last week’s news :

Chart of the Week

This week’s Drewry’s Container Index highlights a recent increase in logistics costs

Movers & Shakers 🙌

Elizabeth Greene highlights a new Amazon Ads feature: Product Listing Quality checker to ensure campaign performance.

If you’d like to raise listing quality to a max to improve ad performance (and even better: drive organic sales), 👉 check out Autopilot’s new How-to guide.

Movers & Shakers 🙌

• Google announces $350 million investment in e-commerce platform Flipkart [News Byte App]

• Shopify acquires the team from Peel Insights, an AI-driven analytics startup [Business Insider]

Strategy 🦈

• Why Prestige Beauty Can No Longer Ignore Amazon [Business of Fashion]

• Amazon Briefing: Amazon still dominates online commerce, but Walmart shoppers are spending more on average [Modern Retail]

• Amazon’s next potential threat to UPS: Using its own drivers for returns [The Information]

• I used Amazon Showroom to design my office. The under-the-radar tool helped me save money, but it was far from perfect. [Business Insider]

• Shopify leaders say AI helped keep its head count flat [Business Insider]

• TikTok turns to generative AI to boost its ads business [TechCrunch]

• TikTok said to plan job cuts amid a wave of tech industry layoffs [The LA Times]

• ‘For D2C brands, quick commerce is the next big growth driver’ [LiveMint]

• What happened to retail giant Macy's? [Business Insider]

Job Opportunity 👩‍🚀

• Operations Specialist - Amazon Automation Control Center ]with Autopilot]

Events 🎤

• Shoptalk Europe, Jun 3-5 in Barcelona

• Amazon Seller Partner Dev Summit, Jun 28-29 in Seattle

• Amazon Accelerate, Sep 17-19 in Seattle

Make this week count 🙌

Christian